He writes:Once the public relations apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) e-mail messages, and my requests for interviews will quickly turn into depositions about my intent or who else I am talking to.

My only issue with Carr’s column was his self-description as he writes about Times colleague Jacques Steinberg having his photo altered on a Fox News program. He writes:

I have a bit of an advantage in that my laundry is already hanging on the line, not to mention that with a face made out of potatoes…